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The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Grunt Work of the Mammoth's

It's kind of a real grunt work, but it was very skilled work. The tunnels at the Mammoth's are only about a meter and a half wide - just wide enough for two men. And they do manage to bring down the walls, do they? They do. There is a big fight in the breach at various points up and down the walls. In the movie version of your book, I can guarantee they'll be lobbing Greek fire all over the place. Oh, they will. It does end up as one of the Christian sources said, a land lit up by fire.

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